Skills

World Readiness Standards

Define the central role of world languages in the learning career of every student. The five goal areas of the Standards establish an inextricable link between communication and culture, which is applied in making connections and comparisons and in using this competence to be part of local and global communities.

The World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages create a roadmap to guide learners to develop competence to communicate effectively and interact with cultural competence to participate in multilingual communities at home and around the world.

Proficiency Standards

Revolve around the incorporation of specific skills that deal with communication; these include: reading, listening, writing, and speaking. When a language learner reaches a specific proficiency level, they will be able to communicate in different ways.

The image to the right displays the difference proficiency levels as presented by the American Council of Teaching Foreign Languages.

Skills

Sub-pages: Reading, Listening, Writing, and Speaking document the efforts made by the learner to self-assess their specific proficiency level and provides evidence to support that conclusion.